Adaptations of Mental and Cognitive Disability in Popular Media

Adaptations of mental difference narratives can shape and shift social contexts and narratives, providing a tool for examining constraints and opportunities, measuring shifts in ideology, and revealing relationships with broader social narratives.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 234 pages
Publication date: 02 February 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Adaptations, including remakes, reboots, and other examples of remixed narratives, play a significant role in shaping and shifting the social contexts and narratives we use to define mental disability. The movement of narratives across media through adaptation or within media but across time and space in the case of remakes and reboots is a common tactic for revitalization, allowing storytellers to breathe new life into tired narratives, remedy past inaccuracies, and make them accessible and relevant for contemporary audiences. This collection argues that adaptation provides a useful tool for examining the constraints or opportunities different media impose on or afford narratives, or for measuring shifts in ideology as narratives move across cultures or through time. Narrative functions within this collection as a framework for examining the ways that popular media exerts rhetorical power, allowing for deeper understandings of the ways that mental disability is experienced by differently situated individuals, and revealing relationships with broader social narratives that attempt to push definitions of disability onto them.

Weight: 367g
Dimension: 228 x 151 x 18 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781793648334